Money, Not Spare Cycles, Drives Open Source
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| Wired Magazine editor, Chris Anderson, recently published an article
| on his blog, The Long Tail, suggesting that, much as spare CPU
| cycles drive projects like SETI, human "spare cycle" are powering
| the open source movement and Web 2.0. It's a really nice metaphor,
| the problem is, for large open source projects anyway, it
| isn't true.
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http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/money_not_spare.html
A few days ago, Sun said that Open Source developers should get paid. Of
course, some companies try to convince us that "Open Source if Not Free"^TM,
as the following shows.
A think tank's view of free software
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| When one of that event's top-level sponsors is Microsoft, an extra
| degree of nervousness seems appropriate. The other top-level
| sponsor, naturally, is Novell; the remainder of the list is NEC,
| Unisys, Jasper Soft, OpenLogic, and SugarCRM. Not the most
| community-oriented bunch one could have come up with.
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http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/233403/f32263e015cb67ae/
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